Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914

This book is a study of nineteenth-century liberalism, understood as a process rather than a philosophy, policy or ideology. Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain shows how liberal values reconstructed public space in Britain after the repeal of the Test and Corporations Acts [1828] and the passage of Catholic emancipation [1829]. It traces the century-long process against subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles. It examines the emergence of the intellectual authority of th